New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-11-27

week; nor do you always want them. But the
London police are fine fellows, end they showed on
Sunday the stuff they are made Of Their discipline
their steadiness, their long suffering under tho
grossest provocation, and their courage were alike
admirable Many time / saw a dozen OF them
in tie very midst of n throng of yelling humans
who outnumbercd them fifty TO one. Only TWO OF
three times did see baton drawn or used. lhcF
were OF course used much oftener but can ohlS
testify TO what saw. The arrangements ior the
day were as nearly possible without haw' I'll
Charles Warren saw 10 everything himself and he
handled his police with the precision of soldier.
I should think no such operation had ever Dccn
more complete.
The coming Of tie Life Guards showed how
grave SIr Charles Warren thought the situation.
regiment OF them had been Crawn up since noon on
tie Horse Guards Parade. out of sight They
were there for cventuaIics DIt 1t was hardly sup
pcsed they would be wanted The rule is
here never to let soldier DO seen
If it can lie helped. Often and often
they arc ready when the public knows nothing OF
il. hears nothing. sees nothing. thrill went
through the vast multitude when they canglt their
first glimpse of these splendid troopers They are
pOpular and they were cheered. When they began
to take part in the defence of the Square ana ol
order they. like the police, were Kissed ana hoo'ed
Some Of the Kisses were evidently for the magis-
trote IN plaln clothes who who rode at heir head;
Riot Act IN his pocket all ready 10 read: word OF
command from him all ready 10 be gwen. once
given. those long straight swords were to nave ieit
their scaDbards and deadly work would have be-
gun
They passed up the east side of the Square hall-
company front. filing the roadway, sweeping IL
clesr of the rltf-ran who swaImed from curb to
,,N oil hnp On
soon as they had passed So it went on for another
hour Round and round went The cavalry, wheeling
with beautiful precision. finally dividing, each OF
the troops moving in opposite directions. Mean
willie the Grcna lier Guards came formed up on the
north side fac ing the National Gallery two com
panies of them; more in barracks behind the gal
lery There was sharp quick rattle % rifle butts
on the stone pavement and the sharper order 10 Tx
bayoncts he mob answered with suliep yell.
They saw the game was up. They were hundred
thousand: troops and police together not twentl-
eth Of that. Bat the temper Of the rough was
what the Iritol in his peculiar dialect calls nasty
not fierce. or not fierce enough Tor real hghtiug
There WAS no thought OF staining up against the
military. Hand TO hand tussles went on with the
notice No man. that 1 saw, lifted hlnl or heel
against a soldier.
The gray dull afteI noon was growing swiftly
darker: the lamps were 'gD'tu. Nv N'lS ''hh'
III from the outpOsts nj Weilngton-st.. at Parma
ment-s,. IN Pail Mall. in Waterloo Place, IN the
Newmarket. in Shaftcsbury-ave.. that the process
slons haI been met and broken II pieces There
was 10 chpnce of a meeting. nor, though ST
Charles arTcn Of anOl her effort 10 cni"rin llaie
:, he gave the order to clear the streets ant mold
Them Tactics were changed; broken groups were
no longer allowed to REFORM he dense masses
grew less dense; open spaces appeared once more.
The evening closed IN a wonderful scene; an
angry mob slowly angry dispensing. tie serricd
sold rank, of police and OOt-uaIds sillI no dlng
their ground; vary in con'inutl MOTION. Inc
yellow light from the lamps flashed on steel and
scarlet as those irresistible horscmen sui
wheeled and tralnpcd about and about
the square. and hoofs rang on the stone
pavement, and steel rang against ,teel. II
was not a sight to BE- iOIgpltcI by anybody VINO
saw It; not by spectator nor By mob, aud the les
ION the mob learnt, imagine, WAS that not theI
but ne authorities are mLstcrs None more salu-
tary could be taught Ia London. IL vas taught at
10 cost of lite. No right whether Of public meet
ing or public speech procession has been sacr-
feed Rights and laws to-day what they were
Yesterday. What has been sacrfcel II that be
tn WORD, is the rgIt OF the dhorlery and tho
fauatic1 10 impeui order. to ob-trnct the Streets
to break the peace. That and that only
q. ". s.